People shared their work colleagues’ funniest and most inventive nicknames and these 19 are all from the very top drawer

11.
‘Guy called Willie Pearson was known as Prince Albert…’
@thismortalcoyle

12.
‘Probably apocryphal but a lad called Brian who lost an eye in an accident and was then known thereafter as Bran.’

@JB_1964

13.
‘There’s been some belters on Johnny Vaughan. Brothers called ‘Soup’ and ‘Stew’ (soup wasn’t quite as thick as Stew) and a happy cleaner who always sang called ‘Cleaner Turner’ and a miserable one called ‘the Grim Sweeper’.’
@doonboggles
14.

‘Speedboat…his surname was Mainprize and everyone kept thinking about Bullseye and the ‘main prize’…..’
@shellyluvgolf

15.

‘Justin Edinburgh’ nickname was Musselburgh. Which is, presumably, just in Edinburgh.
@duke_prunes

16.

‘As a teenager, I was in @aircadets – on a residential trip to a naval base, we caught one of the cadets seeing to himself during the night, so his nickname then on was Zulu, due to its meaning when flown from a ship… ‘

@belfastbarman

17.

The Clock – because he’s got one big hand and one little hand.’
@AshleyArmstrong

18.

‘I heard of a short policeman who was called Laptop because he was a small PC.’

@julianrh

19.

‘In a firm of Solicitors I worked for, one of the Lawyers was affectionately called Pepsi Max because he always got his Clients the maximum sentence in Court.’
@VikkiLittlemore

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